It is August and, well, its August, so here are a few quotes from the health care reform chaos, click on the last name of the author (in bold below) to read the whole article.
He underwent diagnostic tests using the latest, most advanced imaging technology available in the world. He was treated at some of the most elite medical centers in the country. He received the latest therapies and accessed the most innovative medical care in the world. When he sought out the best doctors, when he needed access to the latest diagnostic tests, the most sophisticated surgical techniques, the most innovative medical therapies, Kennedy enjoyed the best care available anywhere in the world–right here in the U.S.
With the political prognosis for health care reform turning from poor to likely terminal, many of my fellow Democrats are grieving through grievance. They’re lashing out at friends and foes alike, blaming everyone….Everyone, that is, except themselves, the people who controlled Congress, set the agenda, wrote the legislation and developed the strategy for pushing it.
Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead….You don’t need a Ph.D. to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction.
Barring a major public groundswell or miraculous reversal in Congress, Barack Obama’s healthcare reform package will not include the provision that matters most to the Democratic base, the so-called public option….Earlier this week, during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Sen. Kent Conrad said flatly that there “was never enough support” in his chamber for the public option.
